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Lindsay Wardell 🏳️‍⚧️
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Screenshot of an article snippet from MDN about the Y10K problem. "In many servers, dates are stored as numbers instead of as strings--numbers of a fixed size and agnostic of format (aside from endianness). After the year 10,000, those numbers will just be a bit bigger than before, so many servers will not see issues with forms submitted after the year 10,000. The problem is with the client side of things: parsing of dates with more than 4 digits in the year. It's that simple. Just prepare your code for any number of digits. Do not only prepare for 5 digits. Here is JavaScript code for programmatically setting the value. Why worry about the Y10K problem if it is going to happen many centuries after your death? Exactly because you will already be dead, so the companies using your software will be stuck using your software without any other coder who knows the system well enough to come in and fix it."
<input type="datetime-local"> - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
<input> elements of type datetime-local create input controls that let the user easily enter both a date and a time, including the year, month, and day as well as the time in hours and minutes.
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Emelia 👸🏻
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@lindsaykwardell what on earth?? I get the toIsoString part, but not at all the substring in there??

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Lindsay Wardell 🏳️‍⚧️
@lindsay@lindsaykwardell.com
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Emelia 👸🏻
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@lindsaykwardell oh my.. that sounds like such a gap in the element spec that should be filled because timezones are SUPER important for parsing dates

Skipping the timezone can lead to very big value differences

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